embedding
Pluralembeddings (some meanings)
Pluralembeddings (some meanings)
- 1The way one thing is fixed firmly inside another so it stays in place.
Like pushing a coin into soft clay so it stays stuck.
The embedding of the chip in the bank card makes it hard to remove.
Workers watched the embedding of the steel bars into the wet concrete.
Similarinsertion, implantation
- 2A way of turning a word into a list of numbers that captures its meaning and use.
Like giving each word an address on a map, so words with similar meanings live close together.
The model turns each word into an embedding before doing anything else.
Two words with similar meanings get embeddings that sit close together.
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- 3Present participle of embed. Use this -ing form when the action is happening now.
She is embedding the photos into the report right now.
They are embedding small magnets in each toy.
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- 4In math, a map that shows one structure sitting inside another, in one of several exact ways.
Our teacher showed us an embedding of the whole numbers inside the fractions.
She found an embedding of the graph on a flat sheet, with no two lines crossing.
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- 5A way of fitting one shape inside another space without tearing or gluing any part of it.
- 6A smooth way of fitting one curved shape inside a space so it bends nicely and never crosses itself.
- 7A way of placing one space inside another so that distances change by only a fixed amount.
- 8A map from one number system into another that keeps adding and multiplying working the same way.
- 9A one-to-one map in category theory where the first object has exactly the structure the second one gives it.
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embedding is a form of embed
embed, verb: To fix something firmly inside another material so that the material surrounds it. Full entry
- Spelling
- embed → embedding: double the d, add -ing
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Origin
It comes from the word "embed" plus the ending "-ing".